Clothes-line.



No."7-28,761. PATENTED MAY 19, 1903.

A. L. RICHARD. CLOTHES LINE.

APPLICATION I'ILED JAN. 27, 1903.

NO MODEL.

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No. 728,761. Patented May 19, mos.

UNITED. STATES PATENT- OFFICE.

ALFRED LOUIS RICHARD, OF DENISON, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-THIRDS TO THEODORE W. CARTER, OF DENISON, IOWA.

CLOTHES-LINE.

.SBEGIFIGATION' forming part of Letters Patent No. 728,761, dated May 19, 1903.

Application filed January 2 7, 1903. Serial No. 140,688. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: the circular section A of the line becomes the Be itknown that LALFRED LouIs RICHARD, opposite wire in the adjacent sections B and a citizen of the United States,and a resident O. In like manner the wire 3 of section A of Denison, in the county of Crawford and passes to the opposite side in sections B and 5 State of Iowa, have invented certain new and O. This alternating arrangement of the side useful Improvements in Clothes-Lines, of wires prevents the weight of large pieces of which the following is a specification. fabric which would extend over a number of The object of my invention isto provide a the sections from turning the loops downfirst-class metallic clothes-line to which the wardly at each side of the centralwire, or, in no clothes can be readily and conveniently seother words, from rotating the side sections cured without the use of clothes-pinsor other from their normal horizontal position into an fastening devices, the arrangement for'fasinclined or vertical position, since the side tening being such that the separate pieces of sections on one side of the central wire are clothing cannot overlap or even contact with balanced, as it were, against the side sections [5 each other at the points where they are se on the other side of said central Wire.

cured to the line, the object of this latter fea- The cloth or fabric is secured to the line by ture being to preventthe pieces of clothing doublingits edge over the central wire within from freezing together on the line. in cold a circular section and then sliding it along in weather. the direction of one of the twists until it is 2o The-special construction of my improved compressed and clamped between said cenclothes-line will now be described and its tral wire and the converging spring ends of novel features pointed out and claimed, refthe section-loops; but'when the line is used erence being had to the accompanying drawfor drying or sunning large pieces of fabric, ings, which form a part of this application, such as bedclothing, &c., the pieces of fabric 25 and in whichare thrown centrally over the line in the usual Figure 1 is a side elevation of. my line in manner and at their ends are drawn into the use. Fig. 2 isa top plan view thereof. Fig. clamp-sections formed by the central wire 3 is a plan view on an enlarged scale, showand the converging sections of the side wires ing one of the twists interposed between the and are in that way secured to the line. 50 sections of myline. Fig.4:isasectional view Small pieces of fabric, such as towels, 850., taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 1 and shows the may also be secured in the same manner, if method of securing clothing on the line withdesired. out clothes-pins or other fastening devices. My clothes-line is formed, preferably, of

My clothes-line is formed, preferably, of smooth galvanized wire, and as a damp piece 35 three wires, the central one, 1, of which is of cloth when frozen upon such a line only straight and chiefly supports the weight imslightly adheres thereto it will be seen from posed upon the line as a whole. It is usually the construction of my line that no difficulty made of the same-sized wire as the others, 2 will be experienced in removing frozen clothand 3. These latter wires are formed into ing. 9o 40 loops on opposite sides of the central wire 1, The curved sections of my line are made thus formingat shortintervals approximately sufficiently close together to give the line full circular sections A B O, 850. At points becapacity when used for supporting small artween the said sections A B O, &c., the outer ticles. wires 2 3 are twisted around the central one, The twisted or spiral sections of the line 5 45 l. The straight end portions of the loops exserve to hold small articles slightly separated tend alongside the central wire and converge from each other, so that they cannot freeze to the twists, thus forming spring-clamps for together. holding clothes or fabrics. The twists are Having thus described my invention,what preferably'so made that the side wires change I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters I00 50 sides at every twist, as clearly indicated by Patent, is

the numerals in Fig. 2, where the wire 2 of 1. A clothes-line comprising a main wire and clam ping-wires disposed on opposite sides thereof, said clamping-wires being secured to each other and to the main wire at intervals throughout the length of the line, the sections of said clamping-wires having portions at their centers bent outwardly from the main wire and being inclined at a slight angle to said main Wire from said outwardlybent portions to the points where the wires are secured together, said clamping-wires being complementary to each other.

2. A clothes-line comprising a main wire and complementary spring clamping-wires disposed on opposite sides thereof, said clampin g-wires engaging each other at intervals by I 5 

